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richlevy · 08-04-2007, 02:43 PM

I think this bridge collapse (and the recent steam pipe explosion in NYC) are our 'infrastructure 9/11'. I think people are beginning to understand that protecting bridges, dams, gas mains, etc from terrorists isn't going to do much if the things are going to fail catastrophically on their own.

We're spending 2 billion a week to attack and occupy a country because it was in the neighborhood of the country that harbored the guy who brought down a 2 billion dollar building and killed 3,000 Americans.

How much are we going to spend to fix a few trillion dollars worth of infrastructure which could kill thousands of Americans over the next few decades as it starts to fail?

08-04-2007, 02:43 PM	#43
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I think this bridge collapse (and the recent steam pipe explosion in NYC) are our 'infrastructure 9/11'. I think people are beginning to understand that protecting bridges, dams, gas mains, etc from terrorists isn't going to do much if the things are going to fail catastrophically on their own. We're spending 2 billion a week to attack and occupy a country because it was in the neighborhood of the country that harbored the guy who brought down a 2 billion dollar building and killed 3,000 Americans. How much are we going to spend to fix a few trillion dollars worth of infrastructure which could kill thousands of Americans over the next few decades as it starts to fail? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama